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A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect Author: William Henry Long (1839-1896) Text type: Glossary Date of composition: 1886 Editions: 1886. Source text: Long, William Henry. 1886. A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight dialect, and of provincialisms used in the island; to which is appended the Christmas Boys’ play, an Isle of Wight “Hooam Harvest,” and songs sung by the peasantry; forming a treasury of insular manners and customs of fifty years ago. London: Reeves and Turner. e-text Access and transcription: November 2012 Number of words: 57,407 Dialect represented: Isle of Wight Produced by María F. García-Bermejo Giner and María Martín Bullón Copyright © 2013– DING, The Salamanca Corpus, Universidad de Salamanca A DICTIONARY OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT DIALECT, And of Provincialisms used in the Island; WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES AND TALES; TO WHICH IS APPENDED THE CHRISTMAS BOYS’ PLAY, AN ISLE OF WIGHT “HOAM HARVEST,” AND SONGS SUNG BY THE PEASANTRY. FORMING A Treasury of Insular Manners and Customs OF FIFTY YEARS AGO. BY W. H. LONG (Subscribers’ Edition.) LONDON: REEVES & TURNER, 196 STRAND, W.C. ISLE OF WIGHT: G. A. BRANNON & CO., “COUNTY PRESS,” ST. JAMES’S SQUARE, NEWPORT. 1886. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. –––– MRS. ASTON, Bargate Street, Southampton. J. R. BLAKE, ESQ., Stone House, Blackwater, I.W. A. BRANNON, ESQ., Gatcombe Newbarn, I.W. LIEUT.-GEN. THE HON. SOMERSET J. G. CALTHORPE, J.P., Woodlands Vale, Ryde, I.W. J. L. CANTELO, ESQ., River Avon Street, Liverpool. J. F. CHILDS, ESQ., Southsea. C. CONQUEST, ESQ., 66 Denbigh Street, London. J. COOKE, ESQ., Langton House, Gosport. THE REV. SIR W. H. COPE, BART., Bramshill, Hants. COLONEL CROZIER, West Hill, Yarmouth, I.W. COLONEL L. D. H. CURRIE, Ventnor, I.W. DR. G. H. R. DABBS, Highfields, Shanklin, I.W. A. HARBOTTLE ESTCOURT, ESQ., Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight, Standen Elms, I.W. SIDNEY EVERITT, ESQ., Fairmount, Shanklin, I.W. A. T. EVERETT, ESQ., Portsmouth. W. FEATON FISHER, ESQ., St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. J. LEWIS FFYTCHE, ESQ., F.S.A., Freshwater, I.W. MRS. FLEMING, Roude, I.W. T. FRANCIS, ESQ., Havant. MESSRS. W. GEORGE’S SONS, BRISTOL. J. GRIFFIN, ESQ., J.P., Southsea. DR. J. GROVES, Carisbrooke, I.W. A. HOWELL, ESQ., Carnarvon, Southsea. T. HOWELL, ESQ., St. David’s, Southsea. THE REV. E. B. JAMES, Carisbrooke Vicarage, I.W. T. D. A. JEWERS, ESQ., Free Library, Portsmouth. G. F. JONES, ESQ., Afton Manor, Freshwater, I.W. F. E. KNOTT, ESQ., M.R.C.V.S., Portsmouth. O. LASBURY, ESQ., Cotham, Bristol. GEORGE LONG, ESQ., Newport, I.W. THE REV. H. J. MADDOCK, Tremadoc, Shanklin, I.W. W. B. MEW, ESQ., The Polars, Newport, I.W. QR.-MR.-SERGT. H. MOREY, 2nd Batt. Royal Irish Rifles, Halifax, Nova Scotia. C. E. MUMBY, ESQ., Gosport. F. MURRAY, ESQ., Derby. J. NIELD, ESQ., Bath Street, Bristol. E. PARSONS, ESQ., Brompton, London. W. PAYNE, ESQ., Woodleigh, Southsea. R. ROACH PITTIS, ESQ., Marl Hill, Carisbrooke, I.W. G. W. PRAGNELL, ESQ., Claridge’s Hotel, London. W. H. RIDDETT, ESQ., Ryde, I.W. S. J. A. SALTER, ESQ., F.R.S., Basingfield, Basingstoke. THOMAS SELF, ESQ., Newport, I.W. JOHN SPICKERNELL, ESQ., Field House, Carisbrooke, I.W. FREDC. STRATTON, ESQ., The Chantry House, Newport, I.W. W. T. STRATTON, ESQ., Bury Hill, Carisbrooke, I.W. THE REV. E. SUMMERS, Brading Vicarage, I.W. THE HONOURABLE HALLAM TENNYSON, Farringford House, Freshwater, I.W. MISS URRY, Gatcombe Hill, I.W. F. W. B. WATERWORTH, ESQ., Newport, I.W. EDWARD WATTS, ESQ., Thetis House, West Cowes, I.W. W. SELF WEEKS, ESQ., F.R.H.S., Clitheroe. F. WHITE-POPHAM, ESQ., Deputy Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight, Wootton Lodge, Wootton, I.W. PREFACE. –––– THE following pages aim at giving - besides a Dictionary of the dialect - illustrations of the use of the words, and specimens of the every-day talk and forms of expression current among the peasantry of the Isle of Wight. The list of words could easily have been made more extensive, but many found in other parts of the country as well as in the Island have been purposely omitted; although a number equally as common have been retained, from a desire to make the collection as complete a transcript as possible of the provincial vernacular. The Glossary of Isle of Wight Words edited by Mr. C. R. Smith for the English Dialect Society has been of the greatest service in the compilation of this, (though the larger part of the matter here printed was collected before its appearance in 1881); and considerable assistance has been afforded by the Glossary of Hampshire Words compiled by the Rev. Sir W. H. Cope for the same Society. Akerman’s Glossary of Wiltshire Words and Barnes’ Glossary of the Dorset Dialect have also been occasionally consulted. No one knows better than the compiler that a Dictionary like the present must necessarily be more or less incomplete; but he hopes that not many words of importance will be found to have been omitted; and such as it is - he offers the result of his labour to the favourable consideration of his fellow-Islanders, and the Public generally. W. H. L. CONTENTS. –––– (page numbers for this pdf file) PAGE INTRODUCTION 6 DICTIONARY OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT DIALECT 11 PLAY ACTED BY THE “CHRISTMAS BOYS” 108 AN ISLAND “HOOAM HARVEST” 119 SONGS SUNG BY THE PEASANTRY 136 SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF WORDS 193 INTRODUCTION. –––– THE provincial dialects spoken in the southern counties of England, once forming part of the Saxon Kingdom of Wessex, have many general features of resemblance, showing that they all are branches from one parent stock. Many of the provincialisms current in the Isle of Wight are the same as, or very similar to, those found in the adjoining counties of Hampshire, Wilts, and Dorset; but a good proportion seems to be peculiar to the Island; and the dialect of Sussex on the one side, and of Somerset and Devon on the other, are very different from the insular vernacular. The basis of the dialect of the Isle of Wight is purely Anglo-Saxon, and it is remarkable, considering its situation, and intercourse (principally through fishing and smuggling) with the opposite coast of France, that scarcely a word of undoubted French origin seems to have been introduced. The ever-increasing number of visitors flocking into the Island, and the growing influences of Board Schools, are rapidly sweeping away all vestiges of the native Island speech, while the older inhabitants abstain as much as possible from using it in the presence of strangers; and the rising generation are growing up ignorant of the meaning of words still used by their grandfathers, - some of them far more expressive and comprehensive than their modern substitutes. For instance, - what a combination of common every-day phrases is necessary to explain the influence of dry weather on ripened corn, expressed by an Island labourer in two words - “bret out”; or to give the full meaning he comprises in the single word “snoodle.” There is no doubt that by the gradual disappearance of the local dialects, various words and forms of expression are lost, which modern English replaces but imperfectly. Many of the peculiarities of transposition of letters, and of pronunciation, will be found noted in their places in the Dictionary, but there are a few forms which may be noted more at length. The vowels and consonants are always transposed in such words as - hapse for hasp clapse “ clasp wopse “ wasp, &c. The diphthong oi is pronounced wi, e.g. - spwile for spoil bwoy “ boy bwile or bwyle “ boil pwison “ poison The old English affix, en, is often added to adjectives, as - timberen (made of wood, or wooden), earthen, leatheren, elmen - or more commonly, ellem, - ashen (made of elm or ash); and in verbs ending in en, the last syllable is generally dropped, as - “Sharp my riphook,” for “Sharpen my reaping hook”; “I sholl fat my pig,” for “I shall fatten my pig”; and so on. The past tense of many irregular, as well as regular verbs, is generally formed by adding ed to the present tense, as - Present. Past. bear beared instead of bore blow blowed „ blew drink drinked „ drank feel feeled „ felt grow growed „ grew hold holded „ held know knowed „ knew lead leaded „ led lend lended „ lent sting stinged „ stung spend spended „ spent and many others. The conjugation of the verb “To be,” in the Island, is as follows: - INDICATIVE MOOD. - Present Tense. Interrogatively. Sing. Plural. Sing. Plural. I be We be Be I? Be we? Thee bist You be Bist? Be you? He or she is They be Ezza? Be um? Past Tense I was We was Thee wast You was He was They was F u t u r e . Interrogatively. I sholl or wull We sholl or wull Wull I? Wull we? Thee shat or wull You sholl or wull Wut thee? Wull ’ee? He sholl or wull They sholl or wull Wull he? Wull um? POTENTIAL MOOD. - Past Tense. I med a ben We med a ben Thee medst a ben You med a ben He med a ben They med a ben IMPERATIVE. Thee’st better be We better be Let’n be Mak’n be Make um be Thee is generally used for thy, as - “Hast had thee nammet it, mayet?” But in such a phrase as “Hast thee had thee nammet, mayet?” the first thee is strongly emphasized. The objective cases of the personal pronouns he, she, and it are pronounced en, or more correctly, ‘n; them being um. She is generally represented by her, and conversely. Can’t her git’n down? Can’t she get him down? I don’t want noo truck wi’she.
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